Hi
This is my first post, after searching on here for similar posts but when I think I've found one and read it, it ends up being nowhere near similar, I'm looking for reassurance my DS2 is ok, or advise from parents with same issues.
My DS2 is 26 months and has never said a single word EVER!! He just moans all day long and it's a monotone moaning sound. He dosnt make eye contact with anyone other than myself and DH and he does this rarely only if I sing "wheels on the bus" he stares at me and loves it.
He loves TV (unfortunately) peppa pig, Ben and holly, nursery rhymes
He loves the park (slides, swings, climbing frames)
He smiles and laughs a lot.
Rarely cries if he falls
Dosnt point, fetch or offer toys to us.
He does like feeding me though ( strange I know)
He has been able to stack blocks higher than you could imagine very talented at this.
He does puzzles at lightening speed(wooden shape sorting puzzles)
He didn't walk until 19 months
Will only drink from a certain bottle with a teat,
Has night terrors occasionally but sleeps very well though and sleeps through no problem.
Screams if DH uses a drill but loves the Hoover on
Loves going to nursery but never plays with others always on his own :(
Plays well with toys loves cars and trains and pushes them around the tracks.
Dosnt respond to his name
Dosnt understand anything we say to him.
Dosnt communicate at all, I offer drinks and food to him because he never shows he wants it.
Keeps unlocking the font door and escaping so we now have a new front door and our neighbour has put a wire fence all around our house and 2 new gates as he is so clever at getting out.
I have just had his 2nd assessment with the paediatrician on the 1st visit she said she could diagnose at 2 years if it was autism but at the 2nd visit she said it's too early, been waiting for speech therapy for over 8 months on the waiting list. I'm at my wits end, scared as they say earliest diagnosis is best, but they seem to be fobbing me off all the time and now have to wait until February! I'm worried in February it will be put off again.
Just need anyone who has or had a child that can't say a single word at 26 months to let me know if there child was just late developer and all is ok now with them? Or am I burying my head in the sand and should be knocking down my GP,s door for answers. Don't know what to do for best really.
Some days I think my boy is just a late developer and he is fine then other days I think he is on another planet and don't Even know who I am, my DS1 is a lot older and things were different, never heard of milestones back then and no one cared when they walked or talked and never heard the word autism, now it's like your under pressure for them to be doing everything by a certain day and if they don't they are autistic!
Anyone please help, any advise or similar, would love to hear as so depressed.